Configuring the Smoothwall Filter to Allow Users to Read Facebook but to Block Users From Posting Content

You can use the Facebook: Posts & Updates category found in the Social Media category group, in a block policy to make Facebook read-only. Your users will be able to read content from other users but won't be able to post content themselves.

This configuration allows read-only access to Facebook but blocks all other social networks.

Who: "Everyone, or the relevant user or groups to apply this policy to."

What: "Social Networking Sites"

Where: "Everywhere, or the relevant location to apply this policy to."

When: "Always, or the relevant time slot to apply this policy to."

Action: "Block"

Make sure that these policies appear in this order in your Web filter policies table, see our help topic, Managing web filter policies. The order should be the Facebook policy, the Facebook policy below that and Social Networking Sites policy below that.

Tip: You can also do this for Twitter with the Twitter: Updates category.